Trauma and cinema : cross-cultural explorations / / edited by E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824713803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-70724-8; 9786612707247; 988-220-295-0
• Edizione: [Pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KaplanE. Ann; WangBan <1957->
• Disciplina: 791.43653
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - History; Traumatism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-271) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: From Traumatic Paralysis to the force field of modernity / E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang -- This is my history : trauma, testimony, and nation-building in the "new" South Africa / Sarah L. Lincoln -- Traumatic contact zones and embodied translators : with reference to select Australian texts / E. Ann Kaplan -- A world of sadness? / Robert Chi -- Post-traumatic cinema and the Holocaust documentary / Joshua Hirsch -- The vicissitudes of traumatic memory and the postmodern history film / Janet Walker -- Allegorizing Hiroshima : Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba as trauma text / Adam Lowenstein -- Hiroshima, mon amour, trauma, and the sublime / Andrew Slade -- Encountering paralysis : disability, trauma, and narrative / Petra Kuppers -- To live : the survival philosophy of the traumatized / Zhaohui Xiong -- Trauma, visuality, and history in Chinese literature and film / Ban Wang.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book discusses how trauma presented in the media spills over national boundaries and can be found in images across divergent cultures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America.